Margaret Davis of West L.A. voted for President Obama and appreciates the ideas behind the Affordable Care Act. She agrees that everyone should have access to healthcare and no one should be denied coverage because of pre-existing conditions.

But here's the problem:

She knows firsthand, as the new law of the land rolls clumsily into being, that it's not working out to everyone's advantage.

"I'm a 55-year-old woman in excellent health and have a catastrophic health plan," she wrote recently to Obama and California Sens. Dianne Feinstein and Barbara Boxer. "I am completely happy with my plan. I received notice that the plan is being canceled and that to stay with a "comparable" plan my premiums would increase 88%, or $200 extra per month. To add insult to injury, the plan is INFERIOR to my existing plan."

If you guessed that she got no response from any of those elected officials, you win a box of cough drops.

But public officials didn't throw a complete shutout at Davis. She wrote to U.S. Rep. Karen Bass (D-Los Angeles) when she didn't hear from the others, and one of Bass' staffers called Davis to say she'll be looking into the specifics of her case.

"Any time you do a huge policy change like healthcare, there's going to be all sorts of problems and glitches that need to be worked out," Bass told me Tuesday from Washington, where she said there were new calls for allowing people to keep the policies they have, as President Obama had repeatedly promised they'd be able to do.

President Clinton has urged such a move, and Feinstein's office backed the idea Tuesday. She noted in a statement that her office had received 30,832 contacts from Californians, "many of whom are very distressed by cancellations of their insurance policies and who are facing increased out-of-pocket expenses."

The whole thing is a power grab.

The government should not meddle in things like personal choice of health care.

Instead of the (under the guise of lowering insurance rates) lower insurance prices, health insurance is actually rising.

There is disappointment today, in the number of people who have actually signed up for ACA, and the new deadline is even less promising.

Why is it not promising? Because the people who pushed for it are finding out it isn't free, which any idiot should have known, but i digress.

Obama's approval rating has dropped, along with support for ACA

X amount of people who aren't signed up for ACA by Nov 30...what happens next?

Well, i suppose the government can use taxpayer money to purchase ACA for whoever wants it (much like it purchased all the bullets it could when gun control failed) just to meet the deadline, otherwise, there will be a new bill that must be voted on, and in the meantime, those who wanted it will wait longer.

It isn't about concern for your health or health care insurance. It is about government control, plain and simple.

Now you tell us....

Because the people who pushed for it are finding out it isn't free, which any idiot should have known

True Mark, the whole thing was quite obvious except to those with the "Obama Worshiping" syndrome.